The VLRC report on trading trust remedies released this week is another example of how Liberal-Nationals governments get on with practical law reform. The Napthine government asked the Victorian Law Reform Commission to investigate this issue. Their report recommends changes to the law to give Victorians whose small businesses are in trading trusts the same rights as those whose business is in a company.

Family violence perpetrators who seriously injure their victim while breaching a family violence order will face a minimum of four years in jail under strong new laws to be introduced by a re-elected Napthine Government.

A re-elected Coalition Government will legislate to require offenders convicted of repeat killings or serious sex offences to be given an indefinite jail sentence, Premier Denis Napthine announced today.

A re-elected Napthine Coalition Government will introduce a range of tough measures to tackle ice, giving police and corrections authorities new powers to detect offenders using ice and making it harder for drug dealers to profit from their crimes.

New offences for maliciously distributing or threatening to distribute intimate images of another person come into force today, along with new laws to ensure that young people who engage in non-exploitative ‘sexting’ don’t end up with criminal records or on the sex offenders register.